I can't believe there isn't a more elegant way of including a link to the portal home page in a skin, like you can with <%=SkinPath%> and the skin directory url.  You can set the Home Page in Site Settings so it would seem that DNN could easily return the correct URL for the home page.

My problem is that if I hard code a url for several skins then someone changes the home page I have to spend the morning fixing skins so that the home link works again, so I'd rather not hard code anything into the skins.

Any ideas would be great!

Thanks.

The easiest way to get a link to the home page is something along the lines of ~/Default.aspx.  The home page is the easy page to build a link because any time you dial up your website and want the home page you just go with http://www.website.com/Default.aspx.  Getting a link to any other page is a bit more complicated because you could be dealing with a child portal, or a parent portal, and many other combinations.  You can programatically extract the url for the site whether it is a child or parent portal and then build the link off of that but it takes a bit more effort to do and requires some work in the code behind. 

John, thanks for the tips they are extremely useful. 

I think you could use:

<%="http://" & PortalSettings.PortalAlias.HTTPAlias%>

This will not take you to the home page but to the first page that loads if you visit the site (which can be the splash page too)